SiFive, a Silicon Valley startup built around the open silicon design, quickly sold out on a limited run of a single-board computer for RISC-V developers, HiFive Unleased, that it offered on a crowdfunding site for the premium price of $999 apiece, resulting in gross sales of $143,700. That was followed by an announcement a month later that the hard-drive maker Western Digital, had signed a multi-year license for SiFive’s Freedom Platform and become an investor in the company. To read more, please visit: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hardware/companies-pushing-open-source-risc-v-silicon-out-edge ]]>